top of page
"Usually we praise only to be praised."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Praise quotes

"The time of persecution and problems is the time to thank and praise God."

"Why Polish the Gold? It builds your confidence when you realize that your words have power and can positively influence. As you seek to find the good in others, you will enjoy the ripple effect reminder for finding the good in yourself. It makes a great ice-breaker to begin a conversation. It helps you meet new people and make new friends. It strengthens your relationships and builds mutual admiration. It brings more happiness and joy into your life. A little praise goes a long way to make others happy."

"We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled."

"True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong."

"All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo."
Explore more quotes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"We get so much in the habit of wearing disguises before others that we finally appear disguised before ourselves."

"When a man must force himself to be faithful in his love, this is hardly better than unfaithfulness."

"Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with."

"No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will."

"There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means."

"Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed."

"There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of."
bottom of page